my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
Ooh this is so cool! Kate Folk & Brandon Taylor
stop submitting to this storefront pretending to be a literary magazine!!
A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
This is a truly heroic thread about (extra)ordinary people meeting the moment and/but the dynamic will be super familiar to anyone whose little group grew and organized to meet a crisis, even if they didn’t grow as large or do as much. A good reminder.
This was a really good show, y'all
Oh that ending is scary. Merging back? no no
I always think it’s important to point out (since it usually is little discussed these days) that Rosa Parks was fired from her seamstress job in Montgomery and was basically blacklisted from being employed in the city. She had to move to Detroit because of discrimination after this.
Just in time for Giving Tuesday, here's my book review of Robin Wall Kimmerer's latest. How gift economies provide sustainable ways of treating the earth & each other theracketsf.com/home/review/...
Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
Anubis weighing a heart against a feather on a scale, the deceased stands before him, it is from the Book of Ani (British Museum) 1300 BC
🎵 Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day
You weighed it away
Sign on public storage building with lights burnt out in several letters, leaving “Public rage.”
I don’t think it will all fit in there.
After all the hand-wringing over Black men shifting to the right, the vast majority of this group did what they had to do.
Despite their consistently progressive voting record, in the public imagination they are viewed as “civic deadbeats” and impulsive children that need to be chided and cajoled.
Super excited to see this bookstore pop up on Bluesky
“America seems filled with violent people who like causing people pain but hate when those people tell them that pain hurts.”
— Kiese Laymon, HEAVY: an American memoir
Poetry right there
for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
I was unable to save
a single life
I couldn't stop
a single bullet
so I circle cemeteries
that aren't there
search for words
that aren't there
I run
to the aid uncalled for
I want to get there ontime
even if it's already over
-Jercy Ficowski
tr. Jennifer Grotz, Piotr Sommer
As we approach Banned Books week, here's my annual reminder:
If you're going to partake, buy and read banned books from *living* authors. The Bradbury and Vonnegut estates don't need your money, but Maia Kobabe probably does.
Fed goes big, slashing interest rates by 50 bps Markets will be closely watching the tone of Jerome Powell’s news conference to decipher why the Fed decided on a bigger rate cut
Can't believe the Fed went and cut interest by 50 boops per snoot.
nytimes post showing an old white man in a colorful button-down shirt looking offscreen. overlay says, "If we continue on the Democratic train, I don't know if the country will ever recover." Robert Horton qualified for a long-stay visa in France and plans. to move in December.
does this count as white flight?
If the shoplifting of baby formula is epidemic, the main problem is not the shoplifting.
I am so sick of the moral panic about everything but killing people.
